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T. E. Lawrence to Eric Kennington

Amman.

8. XI. 21.

Dear Kennington,

Scott has sent me a
note from you, written in the Euston Hotel. It crossed one from me which
largely answered it. Also three days hack I got your volume of
portraits, with letter. It's very good of you to have sent me that, and
they came most timely. The household here is delighted with them. Ghalib
is in ecstasies, and all the other subjects are talking about one
another. I'm very glad the show was a success, and it's good that it may
tour the country. I've asked my bank to pay you £720, which was, I
think, our bargain. I want you to cancel it, if you are losing money by
it. They say everything sold off, and I don't want to do you out of
possibly better prices than the one I paid.

Many thanks for
guaranteeing Whittingham & Griggs. I've mislaid their address, and so
can't write to them: but when I get back will look them up in the
Telephone book and pay them. I hope to have a little money in the new
year, and will then carry on with the colour work. Ghalib is V.G.

Your personal news
did not surprise me. Of course it makes a muddle, and to that extent is
disagreeable. Our social state is at fault in making exceptions to its
rules so difficult. It's not right that the individuals should have all
these troubles in putting themselves straight. I hope in your case that
it will go as well as possible.

You say you are
going abroad. I wish I was keeping on here, because this place is
getting fit for women now, and it would have been delightful and
profitable (how Scotch one gets) to have had you wandering about the
country. However I'm due to leave in about a fortnight, and should be in
London about December 10. If plans change I'll let you know. Do let me
know yours also, so that if possible we can meet somewhere.

Very best of luck in
the new effort.

Yours

E.L.

Source:

DG 336-7

Checked:

jw/

Last revised:

26 January 2006

T. E. Lawrence chronology

﻿

1888 16 August: born
at Tremadoc, Wales

1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys

1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909

1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British
Museum's excavations at Carchemish

1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo

1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt

1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference

1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office

1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF

1923 January: discharged from the RAF

1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps

1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant

1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah

1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven
Pillars, published

1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey

1929-33: stationed at Plymouth

1931: started working on RAF boats

1932: his translation of the Odyssey published

1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe

1935 February: retired from the RAF

1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May

1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset

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